NEW YORK -- It's nearly noon on the last Sunday in May, and Pedro Eliza walks hurriedly toward a parked black Mercedes SUV in which his friend, Eddie Espada, sits with a baggie of unused syringes.

In the 1908 Tin Pan Alley tune, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” “Peanuts and Cracker Jack” were all the rage for snacking. But Marty Ross — co-founder of the Wycliffe Stiffs Stickball ...

Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for hundreds of years, and every summer since 1975, teams have competed in Mississippi to become champion of perhaps the oldest game in North America.

On the first day of Native American Heritage Month, the Saint Paul-based Indigenous artist Marlena Myles reimagined the Google logo to honor the North American Indigenous game of stickball.

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Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for hundreds of years, and every summer since 1975, teams have competed in Mississippi to become champion of perhaps the oldest game in North America.

TROY, N.Y. — The Friends of Little Italy awarded this year’s Golden Stickball Bat Awards to three deserving recipients ahead of its “Stick It to Child Homelessness” stickball tournament.

Hoss Villa, Bobby Burkes, Brian Larney and Eli J. Hickman vie for the ball at the stickball club DFW Kabutcha Toli's practice on Sunday, May 1, 2022 in Oak Cliff's Kiest Park. The U.S. government ...

Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for hundreds of years, and every summer since 1975, teams have competed in Mississippi to become champion of perhaps the oldest game in North America.